The Keystone Center Annual Report 2011 Table of Contents

table of contents programs and services 2 from the president 4 energy 6 health 8 environment 10 education 12 leadership awards 14 financials 16 2011 Donors 20 board of trustees 24 the keystone center staff 26 annual report 2011 programs anD services Our policy work helps decision-makers in the energy, environment, and public health arenas advance solutions to Founded in 1975, The Keystone challenging problems. We design, convene, and facilitate: Center is an independent non- ++ International,+national,+and+ profit organization bringing regional+stakeholder+dialogues ++ Public+engagement+processes together public, private, and ++ Joint+fact-finding+dialogues civic sector leaders. We provide + Advisory+councils+&+boards + mediation and facilitation ++ Peer+exchange+forums services for stakeholders that ++ Training+workshops incorporate innovative decision- Keystone Science School takes students making methods. The result: outside the classroom and into the Building Solutions. Educating Leaders. natural world to advance their critical Action-oriented, sustainable thinking skills, scientific knowledge, and leadership abilities. Our educator solutions to complex energy, programs help science teachers develop environmental, and public engaging strategies and give students the skills they’ll need to become health issues. informed, active citizens, and effective leaders. Our programs include: As we engage leaders of this ++ Courses+for+school+groups generation, we also educate ++ Summer+camps+ the next, providing teachers ++ Organizational+retreats+and+ leadership+training+ and students with meaningful + Community+education+ + outdoor learning experiences ++ Teacher+professional+ development+courses+ that inspire scientific inquiry, ++ Student+leadership+development leadership development, and ++ Innovative+science+curriculum+ civic engagement. development ++ Corporate+and+other+group+ retreats+and+trainings 2 gary grappo presiDent anD ceo From the President As The Keystone Center’s new and education issues. Inspired by President and CEO, I am pleased the original values that led to the to present our 2011 annual creation of The Keystone Center 37 report and to share with you years ago, with a clear mission and some of the ways our work is direction, this strategy will provide making a difference in energy, the clarity and direction needed to environment, education, and make targeted, sustainable impact health issues. In the past year, in our core areas of practice. The Keystone Center has had With a dedicated, energetic, the opportunity to guide leaders professional staff and an to consensus decisions in a engaged Board of Trustees, we range of policy issues including are excited about the work and health crisis planning, regional partnerships to come. I extend electric transmission systems, our deepest gratitude to the environmental product labeling, generous supporters who have and natural resource protection. enabled us to continue to follow Our educators have designed and our mission to bring together implemented innovative STEM- today’s leaders and educate oriented programs for students, tomorrow’s to create solutions written original science-based to society’s pressing challenges. curriculum incorporating current policy issues, and instilled vital critical thinking skills in thousands of students. As we move forward, we’ll build upon these accomplishments with a new organizational strategy that will propel us forward to the cutting edge of energy, environment, health, 4 ing through ing through D lea collaboration More than 80% of U.S. energy consumption comes from fossil fuels. in the u.s. and abroad, there Planning Collaborative, a first- Keystone Energy Board, where is an increasing recognition of-its-kind effort to provide a diverse cross-sector group of energy leaders engaged in in- of the need for more clean, coordinated interregional analysis of the electricity depth discussions on such topics safe, and affordable ways to transmission system for the as the global outlook for advanced fuel global prosperity and Eastern U.S., guided by the and clean energy development progress. achieving this goal consensus input of an open, within the context of a challenging will require dramatic changes transparent stakeholder process. political and economic climate, and in technologies, behaviors, energy security and innovation at In partnership with the Energy the Pentagon. and policies. Foundation and the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Here in the U.S., efforts to we initiated the Climate realize our abundant potential Conversations project, which for advanced renewables, enabled the inclusion of a energy demand-side resources, and broader array of voices in the cleaner fossil fuels are hampered National Climate Assessment, a by political partisanship, an comprehensive federal scientific aging infrastructure, lack of effort to detail past trends and comprehensive national energy forecasted changes in our climate policy, inconsistent regulatory and to outline potential impacts and market regimes, and poor across the U.S. access to affordable capital, among other challenges. The We also collaborated with the Keystone Center’s energy Delaware Public Policy Institute stakeholders collectively work to help state-level stakeholders through these obstacles to take steps toward building a clean create the policies, practices energy economy in Delaware; and partnerships that will help explored opportunities to build transform our energy landscape. consensus around best practices In 2011, we helped advance for responsible and sustainable energy infrastructure planning shale gas development; and with the Eastern Interconnection conducted three meetings of the 6 ers D hallenging 2 out of 3 c stakehol Americans give our healthcare system a failing grade. the u.s. healthcare system infections (HAIs), which kill more is rife with intense conflict than 99,000 people each year. Our work in 2011 focused on the —over health care costs, effectiveness of state policies and insurance, vaccination public reporting laws; we will priorities, and access to care, continue working to help policy- among other topics. makers assess the impact of legal mandates as well as to identify The Keystone Center is committed actions, public health investments to helping leaders resolve and infrastructure, and workforce difficult policy challenges by efforts aimed at improving the providing expert guidance, prevention of HAIs. multi-stakeholder forums, and A Keystone-initiated effort, the collaborative processes that Research Integrity Roundtable, enable honest conversation, convened thought leaders from health inspire respect for multiple diverse sectors to develop best perspectives, and pave the way for practices for addressing matters collective decision-making. of conflict of interest and bias in In 2011, The Keystone Center scientific advisory panels, and for brought the public perspective conducting systematic reviews into health crisis planning to inform regulatory decision- efforts in Texas with stakeholder making with the best available dialogues and a large-scale public scientific studies and data. engagement process designed The Roundtable’s final report to gather input on prioritization considers the formation and strategies for providing care in the management of advisory bodies event of a pandemic. These efforts while balancing the imperatives of helped stakeholders forge new transparency and privacy, and the partnerships and also informed importance of a consistent and an independent report published transparent approach to assessing by the Institute of Medicine. We the credibility and relevance of a also engaged stakeholders on the given study or data set. topic of healthcare-associated 8 taking on tough taking challenges environment the earth’s resources are for large landscapes to respond finite. as we approach its to a changing climate and other limits, we have to find new, landscape-level stressors. creative ways to do more Partnering with Colorado State with the water, soil, and University, we’ve begun working with water managers and land carbon we have. use planners throughout the State of Colorado to better Our Environment team works coordinate water needs with with stakeholders to develop state growth. Our educational creative solutions for feeding program, H20 Outdoors, works future populations with fewer to inform students about the role resources, how to develop of water in the Western U.S. and infrastructure and resources The world’s relevant stakeholder positions. responsibly, how communities and land managers can adapt to a changing climate, and how population is to address our increasingly limited water supply in the face of growth. Recognizing the expected to multigenerational aspects of these issues, we’re working with not just policymakers, but with grow by an teachers and students. The Keystone Center facilitates Field to Market, a diverse additional alliance working to create opportunities across the agricul- tural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, 2.3 billion by environmental quality, and human well-being. In 2011, the group worked on development of a 2050. new calculator that helps farmers measure resource use at a national level. Building off of this work, we’re also developing a middle school curriculum on sustainable agriculture in the U.S. We also began assisting federal land management agencies in the formation of landscape con- servation collaboratives that are identifying the science needed

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